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Garbage, pollution (Getty Images)

EFSA proposes new BPA regulations

Joseph Winters - Grist
Rising sea levels (freie-kreation/Getty Images)

Forget federal aid. How about a truck?

Adam Mahoney - Grist
COVID-19 at-home rapid test kits are given away during a drive-thru event at the Hollywood library on December 30, 2021 in Hollywood, Florida. Broward County began distributing a limited supply of the kits to residents while supplies last. The distribution started today and runs through tomorrow at drive-thru sites outside of nine county libraries. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How reliable are at-home COVID tests?

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/filadendron)

Runner's high is a lot like a weed high

Hilary A. Marusak - The Conversation
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (Getty Images)

Jury: Elizabeth Holmes is guilty

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Friends drinking cocktail in a restaurant bar in summer days with protective face mask and practicing alternative greeting, during COVID-19 pandemic. (Getty Images)

Social behavior hurts pandemic response

Eyal Oren - The Conversation
Healthcare workers conduct tests at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at the Dan Paul Plaza on December 29, 2021 in Miami, Florida. In response to the increasing demand for COVID-19 tests, Miami-Dade County opened two new testing sites and expanding hours at the Zoo Miami testing location. The Zoo Miami testing site is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why omicron has a lower mortality rate

Matthew Rozsa
Digital generated image of different variants of COVID-19 cells (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Omicron's weird, ominous evolution

Matthew Rozsa
Semi Truck on I-5 (Getty Images)

New Jersey will phase out diesel trucks

María Paula Rubiano A. - Grist
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

CDC may change isolation guidance—again

Brett Bachman
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASAs James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is seen at the launch pad December 23, 2021 at Europes Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3 foot (6.5 meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic historyfrom within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

Humanity's space travel plans for 2022

Nicole Karlis
An Amazon employee prepares a package for shipment (RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

Nursing homes competing with Amazon

Sarah Varney - KFF Health News
A refrigerated display case of fruit and drinks (Getty Images/Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group)

Why not all calories are created equal

Terezie Tolar-Peterson - The Conversation
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks during an event with the Economic Club of Washington at the Capitol Hilton Hotel October 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

What Joe Manchin wants

Carl Pope
Triage tents built to alleviate overcrowding in the emergency room and keep separate non-coronavirus (COVID-19) patients at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, New York. (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Omicron's odd hospitalization pattern

Nicole Karlis
A cardboard cutout of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, dressed up as the QAnon Shaman, along with other cutouts of people involved in the Capitol insurrection, stand on the National Mall ahead of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce joint hearing on Disinformation Nation: Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation in Washington on Thursday, March 25, 2021. The cutouts were placed by the group SumOfUs as an attempt to highlight the role Facebook and other social media organizations played in the Capitol insurrection. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What misinformation will 2022 bring?

Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim, Ethan Zuckerman - The Conversation
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Inside a hospital during a COVID surge

Matthew Wynia - The Conversation
A shot of a body in the morgue (Getty Images/fmajor)

The medical mystery of "voodoo death"

Frank Bures
Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

They were the pandemic’s perfect victims

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
Businessman playing with a paper airplane while the world burns (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The climate crisis report card for 2021

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman at a rapid coronavirus testing station (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

US breaks single-day case record

Matthew Rozsa
COVID-19 new lambda variant | Bunny the talking Dog | Rising sea levels (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/koto_feja/freie-kreation/Instagram/@what_about_bunny)

Salon's top science stories of 2021

Matthew Rozsa
Harvard University Professor E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. USA. Professor Wilson is a biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. He is considered to be the world's leading authority on the study of ants. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

E.O. Wilson's ant passion

Doug Tallamy - The Conversation
Members of the National Nurses United read the names of the 88 nurses they say have died from COVID-19 while demonstrating in Lafayette Park across from the White House May 07, 2020 in Washington, DC. The union is protesting during Nurses' Week to demand that their employers and the federal government 'provide safe workplaces by providing optimal personal protective equipment (PPE), safe staffing, presumptive eligibility for workers’ compensation benefits and more during the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The CDC caves to commerce

Bob Hennelly
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